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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … and including about 100 smokefree practitioners and community leaders. The launch received widespread media coverage and support from the medical and health community and organisations; for example the Asthma and … strongly believe that with sufficient political will and community engagement the 2025 goal can be reached. The …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … and diabetes in the world. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community policy discussion document published early in … developing states may have the ability to take the same community led action based on a serious consideration of the … drinks but no soft-drink tax. © Secretariat of the Pacific Community (2015) Mexico Similar to the Pacific, Mexico has …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    … better school learning environments, job creation in the community, and increased food system resilience.  In this, … through five interlinked levels - child, whānau, school, community, and food system.  What do we know so far? NZ … scales: to the child, their household/ whānau , school, community, and food system. Implications for public health …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … Control established in 1990 and a National Health Command Center established in 2004 following the SARS pandemic. This … Territory and Tasmania have all had over 100 days with no community transmission (Queensland too can probably be added … Even the state of Victoria had nearly eliminated community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic virus until …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … benefits outweigh harms for every child at every level of community transmission. Instead, the emphasis should shift to … protecting the status quo. And instead of contributing to community transmission, schools should be models of … : including intensive health promotion from trusted community leaders to ensure families are well-informed and to …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … of these services. A recent evaluation of the Leeds community LC Rehabilitation Service, treating over 750 adults … be given to proactive follow-up of patients managed in the community. Potential key components of LC services Based on … assessment and for referring patients to specialist or community services where needed. Patient/peer support: …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … events, cancer registration, publicly funded community pharmacy dispensings, lab tests, and so on, can be … a single ethical oversight system that is inclusive of community values and transparent in its processes. New … resource that works for research, policy and the wider community to inform our development at local and national …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … need a more balanced approach to protect public health and community safety, an approach that aligns with design speeds … to quantify is the price that increased speeds imposes on community mobility, such as walking and cycling: faster … road design, vehicle design, the environment, the economy, community and public health all interact ( see Appendix ). …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … population survey recruited from an online panel; and community focus groups of mainly smokers and ex-smokers of … status was not possible. The population survey and community focus groups found evidence that high tobacco … are accompanied by enhanced monitoring, including use of community intelligence and research into how effective …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … sphere: public art and the public good Public space and community formation are other aspects of the intersection of … private meets the public, leads to a proposal to develop community by opening otherwise private spaces to community use, such as allowing thoroughfare for neighbours. …
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